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A forecast for warmer weather by the weekend offered little comfort to those enduring icy conditions, brutal winds and temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 Celsius). In Minnesota and Upper Michigan, temperatures will be at minus 20F (minus 29C) on Thursday and parts of North Dakota can expect minus 30F, forecasters warned. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WxQu9R

The fragments were sent with a forensic expert to a Miami-based laboratory this week to determine when those buried had died, a senior official from the office on missing persons (OMP) said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TqX2oM

A forecast for warmer weather by the weekend offered little comfort to those enduring icy conditions, brutal winds and temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 Celsius). In Minnesota and Upper Michigan, temperatures will be at minus 20F (minus 29C) on Thursday and parts of North Dakota can expect minus 30F, forecasters warned. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sW6y7I

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A brutal cold wave moved eastward on Thursday after bringing temperatures in the US Midwest lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses and raising fears of hypothermia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RtyVDY

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India's foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's envoy Sohail Mahmood in New Delhi and categorically told him that foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with separatist Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was a "brazen attempt" to subvert India's unity and violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sWdm5r

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A brutal cold wave moved eastward on Thursday after bringing temperatures in the US Midwest lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses and raising fears of hypothermia. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RtyVDY

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Ten armed groups run the Shan State border town of Muse, which is separated by a shallow river from the gleaming towers of its Chinese counterpart, Ruili. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WwyyfN

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In a hate crime, a Hindu temple has been vandalised in the US state of Kentucky by miscreants who sprayed black paint on the deity and left a knife stabbed into a chair in the main hall. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RqRg4H

In a hate crime, a Hindu temple has been vandalised in the US state of Kentucky by miscreants who sprayed black paint on the deity and left a knife stabbed into a chair in the main hall. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RqRg4H

Classes were canceled for Wednesday and Thursday for students across the Midwest, including Chicago, home of the nation's third-largest school system, and police warned of the heightened risk of accidents on icy highways. Michigan said all state offices would remain closed through Thursday from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G09fOg

Classes were canceled for Wednesday and Thursday for students across the Midwest, including Chicago, home of the nation's third-largest school system, and police warned of the heightened risk of accidents on icy highways. Michigan said all state offices would remain closed through Thursday from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G09fOg

But along with more than 100 other Iranian refugees, he says his hopes have been dashed and he has been left stranded in Austria by US restrictions on refugees and immigrants. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2HIzGJO

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Britain is scheduled to exit the EU on March 29 — the first country ever to do so — but an agreement governing its departure is held up in British Parliament, mostly due to a border measure known as the Irish "backstop." On Tuesday, PM May won backing from Parliament to reopen negotiations over the withdrawal deal. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FVWXq5

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"I am ready to sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition so that we could talk for the good of Venezuela," Maduro told the Russian state news agency in an interview in Caracas. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Scsn18

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For nearly three months, US federal prosecutors have made their case against Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a Brooklyn courtroom. On Tuesday, his lawyers made theirs... in about a half-hour. The only witness called by the defence was FBI agent Paul Roberts. On the advice of counsel, El Chapo opted not to testify on his own behalf. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Gc17Jx

The FBI is investigating Chinese economic espionage in nearly all of its 56 field offices around the country, underscoring the depth of the threat to US business, Director Christopher Wray told Congress Tuesday. "China writ large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face," Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing on foreign threats. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sUk2kr

The FBI is investigating Chinese economic espionage in nearly all of its 56 field offices around the country, underscoring the depth of the threat to US business, Director Christopher Wray told Congress Tuesday. "China writ large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face," Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing on foreign threats. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sUk2kr

Temperatures plunged as low as minus 26 (negative 32 degrees Celsius) in North Dakota with wind chills as low as minus 62 (negative 52 degrees Celsius) in Minnesota. It was nearly that cold in Wisconsin and Illinois. Governors in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan declared emergencies as the worst of the cold threatened on Wednesday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FWRr6r

Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice barred self-declared president Juan Guaido from leaving the country and froze his bank accounts Tuesday, as leader Nicolas Maduro seeks to neutralize the American-backed opposition chief. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FXhhaI

The world's two largest economies are battling for nothing less than future dominance in critical high-tech industries, according to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the lead US negotiator. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Ga26dt

Temperatures plunged as low as minus 26 (negative 32 degrees Celsius) in North Dakota with wind chills as low as minus 62 (negative 52 degrees Celsius) in Minnesota. It was nearly that cold in Wisconsin and Illinois. Governors in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan declared emergencies as the worst of the cold threatened on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FWRr6r

The cold front was forecast to hit the Midwest especially hard, with wind chill expected to plummet to minus 50F (minus 46C) in Chicago by Tuesday evening and two feet (60cm) of snow predicted for Wisconsin, according to the National Weather Service. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DHLPL1

The Midwest was the hardest-hit region, as temperatures plunged below zero Fahrenheit (minus 18 degrees Celsius). By nightfall the mercury was hovering at 0F in Chicago, 7F (minus 14C) in Detroit and minus 21f (minus 29C) in Minneapolis. The brutal blast known as the polar vortex is a stream of cold air that spins around the stratosphere over the North Pole, but whose current has been disrupted and is now pushing south into the United States. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2UsEDYR

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President Donald Trump is backing Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself interim president in the opposition's confrontation with President Nicolas Maduro. Colombia, which shares a 1,370-mile (2,200-kilometer) border with Venezuela, is also backing Guaido. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FYJde0

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President Donald Trump is backing Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself interim president in the opposition's confrontation with President Nicolas Maduro. Colombia, which shares a 1,370-mile (2,200-kilometer) border with Venezuela, is also backing Guaido. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TjuAoP

The UK Parliament will vote on a crucial set of amendments later on Tuesday to determine the future course of Brexit as British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to go back to the European Union (EU) to reopen negotiations on a legally-binding withdrawal agreement. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DGzaYX

"We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key US and international concessions," US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a report to Congress on threats to the United States. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2DFHnN5